In the first demonstration of the potential for CAR-T therapy for previously untreatable advanced thyroid cancers, researchers from the Meyer Cancer Center were able to eliminate cancerous cells in cultures and mice. Read more

Women with a healthy body mass index (BMI) may be at risk of developing breast cancer because of enlarged fat cells in their breast tissue that trigger an inflammatory process, according to Andrew Dannenberg, M.D. Read more

A computational tool created by graduate students predicts how people’s livers, hearts and other tissues might respond to different drugs, in order to ID potentially dangerous side effects before the drugs are tested in people. Read more

Ekta Khurana, Ph. D., assistant professor of computational genomics has created a computational tool that can mine terabytes of overlooked genomic data to uncover potentially unknown drivers of cancer. Read more

Ithaca associate Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Ph.D., has secured more than $1 million in funding from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to study breast cancer’s effect on the mineralization pathways in bone. Read more

A substantial N.I.H. budget cut would undermine the fiscal stability of universities and medical schools, many of which depend on N.I.H. funding; it would erode America’s leadership in medical research; and it would diminish opportunities to discover new ways to prevent and treat diseases, argues Harold Varmus, M.D. Read more

David Rickman and Himisha Beltran will receive a grant from the Department of Defense to conduct an in-depth study of N-Myc and the molecular machinery driving neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Read more